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In this episode, Ward talks once again with VADM Ted "Slapshot" Carter, this time about his experience as Commanding Officer of the VF-14 "Tophatters" during the Kosovo Campaign in 1999. As well as facing the challenges of leading 32 aviators into combat, many of them on their first deployments, Slapshot used the LANTIRN system on the Tomcat extensively against sensitive targets that left no room for error.